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puft

puft verb: to puff.

Verb

puft (third-person singular simple present pufts, present participle pufting, simple past and past participle pufted)

  1. (ambitransitive, obsolete) To puff.

Noun

puft (plural pufts)

  1. (archaic) A puff.

Forms of puft

Verb
third-person singular presentpufts
present participlepufting
past participlepufted
pastpufted
Noun
pluralpufts

Origin of puft

From Middle English poften (“to puff, pant”), from Old English *puffettan, from Proto-West Germanic *puffattjan (“to puff repeatedly, pant”), equivalent to puff + -t.

Questions about puft

What does puft mean?
Puft means to puff.
What part of speech is puft?
Puft can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of puft?
The past tense of puft is pufted.

Words near puft in the dictionary

  1. puffs the magic dragon
  2. puffs up
  3. puffy
  4. puffy sticks
  5. PUFs
  6. puft
  7. puftaloon
  8. puftaloons
  9. pug
  10. pug and pine
  11. pug dog

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